Sift Science says it can sniff out cyber fraud — before it gets expensive
Great idea for a startup. This stuff is complex, right in the heart of every company’s ordering pipeline, and I can see a lot of customers for this
(tags: sift-science anti-fraud fraud b2b b2c ecommerce startups aws)
What would you do: Part 2, the Island of Surpyc
Amazing. ‘Cyprus Bailout Choose Your Own Adventure’, basically
(tags: cyoa adventure dice games cyprus politics eu bailouts ecb banking troika)
Running the Largest Hadoop DFS Cluster
Facebook’s 1PB Hadoop cluster. features improved NameNode availability work and 4 levels of data aging, with reduced replication and Reed-Solomon RAID encoding for colder data ages
(tags: aging data facebook hadoop hdfs reed-solomon error-correction replication erasure-coding)
The America Invents Act: Fighting Patent Trolls With “Prior Art”
Don Marti makes some suggestions regarding the America Invents Act: record your work’s timeline; use the new Post-Grant Challenging process; and use the new “prior user” defence, which lets you rely on your own non-public uses.
many of the best practices for tracking new versions of software and other digital assets can also help protect you against patent trolls. It’s a good time to talk to your lawyer about a defensive strategy, and to connect that strategy to your version control and deployment systems to make sure you’re collecting and retaining all of the information that could help you under this new law.
(tags: swpats patent-trolls patenting us prior-art)
Announcing the Voldemort 1.3 Open Source Release
new release from LinkedIn — better p90/p99 PUT performance, improvements to the BDB-JE storage layer, massively-improved rebalance performance
(tags: voldemort linkedin open-source bdb nosql)
Data Corruption To Go: The Perils Of sql_mode = NULL « Code as Craft
bloody hell. A load of cases where MySQL will happily accommodate all sorts of malformed and invalid input — thankfully with fixes
(tags: mysql input corrupt invalid validation coding databases sql)
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a high-performance C server which is used to expose bloom filters and operations over them to networked clients. It uses a simple ASCII protocol which is human readable, and similar to memcached.
(via Tony Finch)(tags: via:fanf memcached bloomd open-source bloom-filters)
Thoughts on configuration file complexity
some interesting thoughts on the old “Turing complete configuration language” question
(tags: configuration turing-complete programming ops testing)